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When I first read it, I was trying to reconnect with someone I'd been in love with 25 years earlier. Both of us, despite our loneliness, unable to connect properly, either then or now. Maybe I was projecting onto this poem, but I saw it as presenting a similar dilemma: The speaker wishes, perhaps, that love would come into his life, but he's nonetheless unable to feel much (either time) for the one who's reached out to him.